The Corner

Maoist Attack in India Leaves 49 Cops Dead

Not to be outdone by al Qaeda and the Taliban:

Communist rebels armed with rifles, hand grenades and petrol bombs attacked a police post in the jungles of eastern India on Thursday, killing at least 49 officers, police said.

The pre-dawn attack Thursday was the latest in a series of increasingly bold assaults by the rebels, who have been fighting for more than two decades in central and eastern India’s long-impoverished hinterlands.

The full story is here.

Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.
Exit mobile version